The
State University of New York at Albany, commonly known as the
University at Albany,
SUNY Albany, and
UAlbany, is a
public universityA public university is a university that is predominantly funded by public means through a national or subnational government, as opposed to private universities...
located in the capital of New York State, and is the senior campus of the
State University of New YorkThe State University of New York, abbreviated SUNY is a system of public institutions of higher education in New York, United States. It is the largest comprehensive system of universities, colleges, and community colleges in the world, with a total enrollment of 438,361 students, plus 1.1 million...
(SUNY) system. Founded in 1844, it is an internationally recognized public research institution, which carries out a broad mission of undergraduate and graduate education, research, and service. The University has three campuses: the Uptown and Downtown campuses in
Albany, New YorkAlbany is a city in the United States of America; it is the capital of the state of New York and the county seat of Albany County. Albany is roughly 136 miles north of the city of New York, and slightly south of the confluence of the Mohawk and Hudson Rivers. The city sits on the Hudson River and...
and one campus in the Town of
East GreenbushEast Greenbush is a town in Rensselaer County, New York, USA. The population was 15,560 at the 2000 census. The name is derived from the Dutch "Green Bosch," referring to the pine woods that originally covered the land...
, just east of Albany.
The University enrolls more than 18,000 students in nine schools and colleges, which offer 58 undergraduate majors and 128 graduate degree programs. The University’s academic choices are diverse and include a range of new and emerging fields such as
public policyPublic policy can be generally defined as the course of action or inaction taken by governmental entities with regard to a particular issue or set of issues...
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nanotechnologyNanotechnology, shortened to "nanotech", is the study of the control of matter on an atomic and molecular scale. Generally nanotechnology deals with structures of the size 100 nanometers or smaller, and involves developing materials or devices within that size.Nanotechnology is very diverse,...
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globalizationGlobalization describes an ongoing process by which regional economies, societies, and cultures have become integrated through a globe-spanning network of communication and exchange....
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documentaryDocumentary film is a broad category of visual expressions that is based on the attempt, in one fashion or another, to "document" reality. Although "documentary film" originally referred to movies shot on film stock, it has subsequently expanded to include video and digital productions that can...
studies,
biotechnologyBiotechnology is technology based on biology, agriculture, food science, and medicine. Modern use of the term usually refers to genetic engineering as well as cell- and tissue culture technologies...
, and
informaticsInformatics is the science of information, the practice of information processing, and the engineering of information systems. Informatics studies the structure, algorithms, behavior, and interactions of natural and artificial systems that store, process, access and communicate information...
. Students take advantage of more than 300 study-abroad programs, as well as extensive internship opportunities that offer real-world experience in New York’s capital and surrounding region. The Honors College, which opened in fall 2006, offers opportunities for the best-prepared students to work closely with faculty.
University at Albany faculty attracted a record $391.7 million in
research fundingResearch funding is a term generally covering any funding for scientific research, in the areas of both "hard" science and technology and social science. The term often connotes funding obtained through a competitive process, in which potential research projects are evaluated and only the most...
in 2007-2008 for work advancing discovery in a wide range of fields, a 39 percent increase over the previous fiscal year. The research enterprise is distinguished by established and emerging strengths in four areas: nanoscale sciences and
engineeringEngineering is the discipline, art and profession of acquiring and applying technical, scientific and mathematical knowledge to design and implement materials, structures, machines, devices, systems, and processes that safely realize a desired objective or inventions.The American Engineers' Council...
, social science and
public policyPublic policy can be generally defined as the course of action or inaction taken by governmental entities with regard to a particular issue or set of issues...
,
life sciencesWe define Life Sciences to encompass companies in the fields of biotechnology, pharmaceuticals, biomedical technologies, life systems technologies, nutraceuticals, cosmeceuticals, food processing, environmental, biomedical devices, and organizations and institutions that devote the majority of...
, and
atmospheric sciencesAtmospheric sciences is an umbrella term for the study of the atmosphere, its processes, the effects other systems have on the atmosphere, and the effects of the atmosphere on these other systems. Meteorology includes atmospheric chemistry and atmospheric physics with a major focus on weather...
. A wide range of explorations in other areas also contributes to the rich spectrum of UAlbany research.
In addition to offering many cultural benefits, including a nationally-recognized contemporary
artArt is the process or product of deliberately arranging elements in a way that appeals to the senses or emotions. It encompasses a diverse range of human activities, creations, and modes of expression, including music, literature, film, sculpture, and paintings...
museumA museum is a building or institution which houses a collection of artifacts.Museums collect and care for objects of scientific, artistic, or historical importance and make them available for public viewing through exhibits that may be permanent or temporary...
and a world-renowned writers institute, UAlbany plays a major role in the
economic developmentEconomic development is the increase in the standard of living of a nation's population associated with sustained growth from a simple, low-income economy to a modern, high-income economy...
of the
Capital RegionCapital Region, also National Capital Region, is a common term for the region or district surrounding the capital city of a country or any other administrative division...
and New York State — particularly through its programs in nanosciences and nanotechnology and in the biotechnology and biomedical sciences. An economic impact study in 2004 estimated UAlbany’s economic impact to be $1.1 billion annually in New York State — $1 billion of that in the Capital Region.
History
The University at Albany began as the New York State Normal School on May 7, 1844, by vote of the State Legislature. Beginning with 29 students and four faculty in an abandoned railroad depot on State Street in the heart of the city, the Normal School was the first New York State-chartered institution of higher education.
Dedicated to training New York students as schoolteachers and administrators, by the early 1890s the “School” had become the New York State Normal College and, with a revised four-year curriculum in 1905, became the first public institution of higher education in New York to be granted the power to confer the bachelor's degree.
A new campus — today, UAlbany’s Downtown Campus — was established in 1909 on a four-and-a-half-acre site between Washington and Western avenues. By 1913, the institution was home to 590 students and 44 faculty members, it offered a master’s degree for the first time, and bore a new name — the New York State College for Teachers. Enrollments grew to a peak of 1,424 in 1932.
In 1948 the
State University of New YorkThe State University of New York, abbreviated SUNY is a system of public institutions of higher education in New York, United States. It is the largest comprehensive system of universities, colleges, and community colleges in the world, with a total enrollment of 438,361 students, plus 1.1 million...
system was created, comprising the College for Teachers and several other institutions throughout the state. SUNY, including UAlbany, ultimately became a manifestation of the grand vision of Governor Nelson A. Rockefeller, who wanted a public university system to accommodate the college students of the post-World War II baby boom. To do so, he launched a massive construction program that developed over 50 new campuses.
In 1962 the University at Albany was officially designated a doctoral-degree granting university center of SUNY. The same year, Rockefeller broke ground for the current Uptown Campus on the former site of the Albany Country Club. The new campus's first dormitory opened in October 1964, and the first classes on the academic podium in the Fall of 1966. By 1970, a year beyond the University’s 125th anniversary, enrollment had grown to 13,200 and the faculty to 746. The Uptown Campus, designed by architect
Edward Durell StoneEdward Durell Stone was a twentieth century American architect.-Early life:Stone was born in Fayetteville, Arkansas, a small college town in the northwest corner of the state. His family, early settlers of the area, owned a prosperous dry goods store. One of his childhood friends was J...
, accommodated this growth and gave the institution a new image befitting its broad
liberal artsLiberal arts are the skills derived from the Classical education curriculum.-Definition:The term liberal arts denotes a curriculum that imparts general knowledge and develops the student’s rational thought and intellectual capabilities, unlike the professional, vocational, technical curricula...
aspirations. The Downtown Campus became dedicated to the fields of public policy: criminal justice, public affairs, information science, and social welfare. In 1985, the University added the School of Public Health, a unique joint endeavor with the state’s
Department of Health.
In 1983, the
New York State Writers Institute was founded by
Pulitzer PrizeThe Pulitzer Prize is a U.S. award for achievements in newspaper journalism, literature and musical composition. It was established by Hungarian-American publisher Joseph Pulitzer and is administered by Columbia University in New York City....
-winning author William Kennedy. As of 2007 the Institute had hosted well over 850 writers, poets, journalists, historians, dramatists, and filmmakers. The list includes eight Nobel Prize winners, nearly 200 Pulitzer Prize and
National Book AwardThe National Book Awards are among the most eminent literary prizes in the United States. Started in 1950, the awards are presented annually to American authors for literature published in the prior year, as well as lifetime achievement awards including the "Medal of Distinguished Contribution to...
winners, several Motion Picture Academy Award winners and nominees, and numerous other literary prize recipients. In addition the Institute has hosted many up-and-coming writers to provide them with exposure at the beginning of their writing careers.
During the 1990s, national attention was paid to the University’s $3 billion, Albany NanoTech complex, extending the Uptown Campus westward. By 2006, it became home to the College of Nanoscale Science and Engineering. In 1996, a third campus — the East Campus — was added east of the Uptown Campus in
Rensselaer CountyRensselaer County is a county in the U.S. state of New York. As of the 2000 census, the population was 152,538. Its name is in honor of the family of Kiliaen van Rensselaer, the original Dutch owner of the land in the area. Its county seat is Troy...
, when the University acquired former Sterling-Winthrop laboratories and converted them into labs, classrooms, and a business incubator concentrating on advances in biotechnology and other health-related disciplines. In 2005, the East Campus became home to the University’s Gen*NY*Sis Center for Excellence in Cancer Genomics.
Growth occurred on the Uptown Campus in the fall of 2004, when a new Life Sciences Building opened, dedicated to basic research and education. In the spring of 2005, the University created the first-of-its-kind College of Computing and Information, with a stated goal of preparing students for the information technology-centric world of the 21st Century.
The effect of such growth in terms of faculty scholarship and research, as well as in increased linkages with government and business, could be seen in the University’s research expenditures, which, for the fiscal year ending June 30, 2005, were $163.7 million — 23.9 percent higher than the previous year. This climbed to $391.7 million in 2007-8. It also swelled UAlbany’s effect on economic development. A 2004 study conducted by the independent Capital District Regional Planning Commission (www.cdrpc.org/) estimated the institution’s economic impact as $1.119 billion annually in New York State — $1.005 billion of that in the Capital Region.
Colleges and schools
The University comprises nine colleges and schools, plus an honors college:
College of Arts and Sciences
The
College of Arts and Sciences, comprising 23 departments, forms the largest academic division at the University.
Departments of the College of Arts and Sciences include
Africana StudiesAfrican American studies is a subset of Black studies or Africana studies. It is an interdisciplinary academic field devoted to the study of the history, culture, and politics of African Americans...
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AnthropologyAnthropology is the study of human beings, everywhere and throughout time....
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ArtArt is the process or product of deliberately arranging elements in a way that appeals to the senses or emotions. It encompasses a diverse range of human activities, creations, and modes of expression, including music, literature, film, sculpture, and paintings...
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Biological SciencesBiology is the natural science concerned with the study of life and living organisms, including their structure, function, growth, origin, evolution, distribution, and taxonomy...
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ChemistryChemistry is the science concerned with the composition, behavior, structure, and properties of matter, as well as the changes it undergoes during chemical reactions...
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ClassicsClassics is the branch of the Humanities comprising the languages, literature, philosophy, history, art, archaeology and other culture of the ancient Mediterranean World; especially Ancient Greece and Ancient Rome during Classical Antiquity...
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CommunicationCommunication studies is an academic field that deals with processes of communication, commonly defined as the sharing of symbols over distances in space and time. Hence, communication studies encompasses a wide range of topics and contexts ranging from face-to-face conversation to speeches to mass...
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EarthEarth science , is an all-embracing term for the sciences related to the planet Earth. It is arguably a special case in planetary science, the Earth being the only known life-bearing planet...
and
AtmosphericAtmospheric sciences is an umbrella term for the study of the atmosphere, its processes, the effects other systems have on the atmosphere, and the effects of the atmosphere on these other systems. Meteorology includes atmospheric chemistry and atmospheric physics with a major focus on weather...
Sciences,
East Asian StudiesEast Asia or Eastern Asia is a subregion of Asia that can be defined in either geographical or cultural terms. Geographically and geo-politically, it covers about , or about 28 percent of the Asian continent, about 15 percent bigger than the area of Europe, though some categorize Tibet, Xinjiang,...
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EconomicsEconomics is the social science that studies the production, distribution, and consumption of goods and services. The term economics comes from the Ancient Greek from + , hence "rules of the house"...
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EnglishEnglish literature is the literature written in the English language, including literature composed in English by writers not necessarily from England; Joseph Conrad was born in Poland, Robert Burns was Scottish, James Joyce was Irish, Dylan Thomas was Welsh, Edgar Allan Poe was American, V.S....
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GeographyGeography is the study of the Earth and its lands, features, inhabitants, and phenomena. A literal translation would be "to describe or write about the Earth". The first person to use the word "geography" was Eratosthenes...
and
PlanningUrban, city, and town planning is the integration of the disciplines of land use planning and transport planning to explore a very wide range of aspects of the built and social environments of urbanized municipalities and communities...
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HistoryHistory is the study of the human past, with special attention to the written record. Scholars who write about history are called historians. It is a field of research which uses a narrative to examine and analyse the sequence of events, and it often attempts to investigate objectively the patterns...
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Judaic StudiesJudaism is a set of beliefs and practices originating in the Hebrew Bible , as later further explored and explained in the Talmud and other texts...
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LanguageA language is a system for encoding and decoding information. In its most common use, the term refers to so-called "natural languages" — the forms of communication considered peculiar to humankind. In linguistics the term is extended to refer to the human cognitive facility of creating and using...
s,
LiteratureLiterature is the art of written works. Literally translated, the word means "acquaintance with letters" , and therefore the academic study of literature is known as Letters...
s, and
CultureCulture is a term that has different meanings. For example, in 1952, Alfred Kroeber and Clyde Kluckhohn compiled a list of 164 definitions of "culture" in Culture: A Critical Review of Concepts and Definitions...
s,
Latin AmericaLatin America is a region of the Americas where Romance languages – particularly Spanish, Portuguese, and variably French – are primarily spoken. Latin America has an area of approximately 21,069,501 km² , almost 3.9% of the Earth's surface or 14.1% of its land surface area...
n,
CaribbeanThe Caribbean is a region consisting of the Caribbean Sea, its islands , and the surrounding coasts...
, and U.S. Latino Studies,
MathematicsMathematics is the science and study of quantity, structure, space, and change. Mathematicians seek out patterns, formulate new conjectures, and establish truth by rigorous deduction from appropriately chosen axioms and definitions....
and
StatisticsStatistics is a branch of mathematics concerned with collecting and interpreting data. According to other definitions, it is a mathematical science pertaining to the collection, analysis, interpretation or explanation, and presentation of data. Statisticians improve the quality of data with the...
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MusicMusic is an art form whose medium is sound. Common elements of music are pitch , rhythm , dynamics, and the sonic qualities of timbre and texture...
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PhilosophyPhilosophy is the study of general and fundamental problems concerning matters such as existence, knowledge, values, reason, mind, and language. Philosophy is distinguished from other ways of addressing these questions by its critical, generally systematic approach and its reliance on reasoned...
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PhysicsPhysics is a natural science; it is the study of matter and its motion through spacetime and all that derives from these, such as energy and force...
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PsychologyPsychology is an academic and applied discipline involving the systematic, and sometimes scientific, study of human or animal mental functions and behavior...
, Religious Studies,
SociologySociology is the scientific or systematic study of human societies. It is a branch of social science that uses various methods of empirical investigation and critical analysis to develop and refine a body of knowledge about human social structure and activity, often with the goal of applying such...
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TheatreTheatre is a branch of the performing arts. While any performance may be considered theatre, as a performing art, it focuses almost exclusively on live performers creating a self contained drama. A performance qualifies as dramatic by creating a representational illusion...
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Women's StudiesWomen's studies is an interdisciplinary academic field devoted to topics concerning women, feminism, gender, and politics. It often includes feminist theory, women's history Women's studies is an interdisciplinary academic field devoted to topics concerning women, feminism, gender, and politics. ...
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Undergraduate education consists of 56 majors offered in these areas, along with their paired minors and 17 other minors as well as a variety of cooperative interdisciplinary programs that include the arts, humanistic studies, physical sciences, and social sciences.
The College houses the following research centers: the
Biological Imaging Center;
Center for Applied Historical Research; Center for Astronomical Observatory;
Center for Autism and Related Disabilities;
Center for the Elimination of Minority Health Disparities;
Center for Language and International Communication (CLIC);
Center for Latino, Latin American and Caribbean Studies(CELAC);
Center for Biochemistry and Biophysics;
Center for Economic Research;
Center for Jewish Studies;
Center for Neuroscience Research;
Center for X-Ray Optics; Econometrics Research and Training Institute; Geographic Information System and Remote Sensing Laboratory; Institute of Biomolecular Stereodynamics;
Institute for Research on Women;
Institute for Mesoamerican Studies; The Institute for Watershed Management;
Ion Beam Laboratory;
Lewis Mumford Center for Comparative Urban and Regional Research; and the College-affiliated
New York Latino Research and Resources Network (NYLARNet).
Graduate programs in the College of Arts and Sciences in the humanities and fine arts, science and mathematics, social and behavioral studies, and college-based interdisciplinary majors lead to the following degrees and certificates: Master of Arts, Master of Science, Master of Regional Planning, Master of Fine Arts, Doctor of Philosophy, Doctor of Arts, Certificate of Advanced Standing, Certificate of Advanced Study, and the Certificate (in selected fields).
College of Computing and Information
The mission of the
College of Computing and Information (CCI), created in 2005, is to support world-class, discipline-based research and educational programs related to computing and information. With its partnerships in the corporate, government and nonprofit sectors, the College provides expertise and collaboration efforts that benefit New York State and the nation.
CCI students take advantage of a research-based learning community that prepare them for careers in today’s Information Age ranging from leadership in the software industry, to information policymaking on the federal level and information security, to library science media specialists in local school districts, to
financial market regulation.
CCI has three integrated departments, which provide students with a broad view of how information is created, organized, stored, manipulated, packaged, retrieved and applied:
Rockefeller College of Public Affairs and Policy
The Rockefeller College of Public Affairs and Policy, created in 1981, was named for former U.S. Vice President and Governor of New York
Nelson RockefellerNelson Aldrich Rockefeller was the 41st Vice President of the United States, the 49th governor of New York, a philanthropist, and a businessman....
. It is home to UAlbany’s departments of
Political SciencePolitical science is a social science concerned with the theory and practice of politics and the description and analysis of political systems and political behavior. It is often described as the pragmatic application of the art and science of politics defined as "who gets what, when and how",...
and
Public AdministrationPublic administration can be broadly described as the development, implementation and study of branches of government policy. The pursuit of the public good by enhancing civil society, ensuring a well-run, fair, and effective public service are some of the goals of the field.Public administration...
and Policy.
The College has an enhanced interdisciplinary approach to its
public policyPublic policy can be generally defined as the course of action or inaction taken by governmental entities with regard to a particular issue or set of issues...
mission. While providing educational preparation for academic and public service careers, it undertakes research on significant public problems and issues, and assists in the continuing professional development of government executives. It also offers appropriate assistance to the federal and New York State governments, as well as to foreign nations and international organizations, to meet the responsibilities of contemporary
citizenshipCitizenship is the state of being a citizen of a particular social, political, or national community.Citizenship status, under social contract theory, carries with it both rights and responsibilities...
and governance. Such assistance includes special courses and conferences, research and consultation, and publications for the dissemination of information.
The College offers degree programs that range from bachelor's level study in political science and public policy, to master's programs in political science, public administration and public policy, to doctorates in political science and public administration. Research centers within the College include the
Center for Legislative Development, the
Center for Policy Research, the
Center for Women in Government & Civil Society, the Institute for Traffic Safety Management & Research, and the Center for International Development.
Several Rockefeller College programs consistently rank highly in the annual surveys of America’s Best Graduate Schools by
U.S. News and World Report.
School of Business
UAlbany’s
School of Business, accredited by the Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business, provides students of all ages and backgrounds with academic programs that build critical business management skills. Founded in 1970, the School quickly became recognized as one of the most comprehensive and academically competitive business schools in the Northeast. Its master's and doctoral programs draw students from all over the world by offering both full-time and part-time opportunities to earn a highly regarded advanced degree.
Bachelor of Science degrees are offered in business administration or accounting. Business administration majors concentrate in one of four fields —
financeFinance is the science of funds management. The general areas of finance are business finance, personal finance, and public finance. Finance includes saving money and often includes lending money. The field of finance deals with the concepts of time, money and risk and how they are interrelated...
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marketingMarketing is an integrated communications-based process through which individuals and communities are informed or persuaded that existing and newly-identified needs and wants may be satisfied by the products and services of others....
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information technology managementThe definition of Information Technology Management, derived from the definition of Technology Management is as follows:Information Technology Management is concerned with exploring and understanding Information Technology as a corporate resource that determines both the strategic and operational...
, or
managementManagement in all business and human organization activity is simply the act of getting people together to accomplish desired goals and objectives. Management comprises planning, organizing, staffing, leading, directing, facilitating and controlling or manipulating an organization or effort for...
. Both accounting and business administration majors are 60-credit majors, as opposed to the normal 40-credit variety. Students are also permitted to combine concentrations. An excellent
Financial AnalystA financial analyst, securities analyst, research analyst, equity analyst, or investment analyst is a person who performs financial analysis for external or internal clients as a core part of the job.-Job:...
program was created in the early 2000s.
Graduate programs are focused on the information age, because the School believes that the creative application of information systems is now essential for the effective growth, management and expansion of business. The MBA has at its core the design and application of information systems for business and industry as well as the generation and effective use of information. The tax and accounting programs emphasize the use of accounting as a decision support system that manages the flow of economic data to all parts of a business.
Overall, the School’s aggressive curriculum, modern classrooms and computer labs foster an interactive and "high tech" learning environment, and applied experiences in the form of relevant internships, on-site field projects with local and regional companies, and in-class projects/case studies that address the most topical business themes.
The School's graduates have a history of attaining high job placements with such top companies as
General ElectricThe General Electric Company, or GE , is a multinational American technology and services conglomerate incorporated in the State of New York. In 2009, Forbes ranked GE as the world's largest company...
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AccentureAccenture plc is a global management consulting, technology services and outsourcing company. It was previously incorporated in Bermuda but since 1 September 2009 has been incorporated in Ireland. It is said to be the largest consulting firm in the world. Accenture is a Fortune Global 500...
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Ernst & YoungErnst & Young is one of the largest professional services firms in the world and one of the Big Four auditors, along with PricewaterhouseCoopers , Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu and KPMG...
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KPMGKPMG is one of the largest professional services firms in the world and one of the Big Four auditors, along with PricewaterhouseCoopers , Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu and Ernst & Young . Its global headquarters are located in Amstelveen, Netherlands.KPMG employs over 136,500 people in a global network...
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PricewaterhouseCoopersPricewaterhouseCoopers is one of the world's largest professional services firms. It was formed in 1998 from a merger between Price Waterhouse and Coopers & Lybrand, both formed in London....
, Deloitte,
Goldman SachsThe Goldman Sachs Group, Inc. is a bank holding company that engages in investment banking, securities services and investment management. Goldman Sachs was founded in 1869, and is headquartered in the Lower Manhattan area of New York City at 85 Broad Street and has its secondary office at 30...
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Merrill LynchMerrill Lynch & Co., Inc. was a global financial services firm acquired by Bank of America in 2009, today known as Bank of America Merrill Lynch. The firm was acquired by Bank of America under distressed circumstances during the 2008 Financial Crisis. This article describes both the historical...
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The New York State Small Business Development Center (SBDC), based at the University at Albany, has been named among the top ten centers in the nation by the U.S. Small Business Administration.
The Small Business Development Center is part of UAlbany's School of Business, one of the top 15 graduate schools most highly rated by students in The Princeton Review.
College of Nanoscale Science and Engineering
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Created in 2004, the
College of Nanoscale Science and Engineering is the first college in the world dedicated to research, development, education, and deployment in the emerging disciplines of nanosciences, nanoengineering, nanobioscience, and nanoeconomics. CNSE's Albany NanoTech complex – a $5 billion, megaplex that has attracted more than 250 global corporate partners – is the most advanced research complex at any university in the world.
In May 2007, CNSE was ranked the number one college in the world for nanotechnology and microtechnology in the annual higher education ranking by
Small TimesSmall Times is an online news magazine dedicated to tracking developments in the Micro- and Nanotechnology industries.Small Times was established in 2001 as the media arm of Ardesta, a so-called "business accelerator". Ardesta invested in and incubated startups in the MEMS, microstystems and...
magazine.
CNSE’s complex, also home to the
New York State Center of Excellence in Nanomaterials and Nanoelectronics, is a fully-integrated research, development, prototyping, pilot manufacturing and education resource with a strategic portfolio of state-of-the-art laboratories,
supercomputerA supercomputer is a computer that is at the frontline of current processing capacity, particularly speed of calculation. Supercomputers were introduced in the 1960s and were designed primarily by Seymour Cray at Control Data Corporation , and led the market into the 1970s until Cray left to form...
and shared-user facilities and an array of research centers. Students and faculty work alongside scientists from industry on fundamental cutting-edge research underlying the real-world problems that most concern industry.
CNSE houses the only fully-integrated, 300 mm wafer, computer chip pilot prototyping and demonstration line within 80,000 square of Class 1 capable cleanrooms. More than 2,500 scientists, researchers, engineers, students, and faculty work on site at the NanoTech complex; these include representatives from such corporate giants as
IBMInternational Business Machines Corporation, abbreviated IBM, is a multinational computer technology and IT consulting corporation headquartered in Armonk, Town of North Castle, New York, United States. The company is one of the few information technology companies with a continuous history dating...
, AMD,
SEMATECHSEMATECH is a non-profit consortium that performs basic research into semiconductor manufacturing. It was conceived of in 1986, formed in 1987, and began operating in 1988 as a partnership between the United States government and 14 U.S.-based semiconductor manufacturers to solve common...
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GLOBALFOUNDRIESGlobalfoundries Inc. is one of the world's largest independent semiconductor foundries, with its headquarters located in Sunnyvale, California. Globalfoundries was created by the divestiture of the foundry business of AMD on March 2, 2009...
, Vistec Lithography
http://www.vistec-semi.com/ Toshibais a Japanese multinational conglomerate manufacturing company, headquartered in Tokyo, Japan. The company's main business is in infrastructure, consumer products, electronic devices and components.Toshiba-made Semiconductors are among the Worldwide Top 20 Semiconductor Sales Leaders...
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ASMLASML is a Dutch company and the largest supplier in the world of photolithography systems for the semiconductor industry. The company manufactures machines for the production of integrated circuits , such as RAM and flash memory chips and CPUs.-Products:...
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Applied MaterialsApplied Materials, Inc. is a leading capital equipment producer serving the semiconductor, TFT LCD Display, Glass, WEB and solar manufacturing industries....
, Atotech
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Novellus SystemsNovellus Systems Inc. develops, manufactures, sells, and services semiconductor equipment used in the fabrication of integrated circuits. It is a leading supplier of chemical vapor deposition , Plasma Enhanced Chemical Vapor Deposition , physical vapor deposition , electrochemical deposition ,...
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School of Criminal Justice
UAlbany’s
School of Criminal Justice is one of the nation’s premier programs in
criminal justiceCriminal justice is the system of practices and institutions of governments directed at upholding social control, deterring and mitigating crime, and sanctioning those who violate laws with criminal penalties and rehabilitation efforts....
, offering degrees on the bachelor’s, master’s and doctoral levels. The problem-centered interdisciplinary approach of its doctoral program was considered groundbreaking upon the School’s founding in 1966, and spurred what came to called “the Albany model” for other Ph.D. programs in major universities across the nation and the world.
The School concentrates on all aspects of
crimeCrime is the breach of one or more rules or laws for which some governing authority, via mechanisms such as police power, may ultimately prescribe a conviction...
and societal reactions to crime, including the political, economic and cultural patterns that influence policy choices on the response to certain categories of crime. A major focus of study is the social and personal forces that lead to criminal conduct and the analysis of the organization and operation of crime control systems. Particular emphasis is placed on the interactions among the many agencies which comprise criminal justice systems and on the relationships between these systems and other facets of society.
The School’s graduates have been highly successful in both academic and practical fields, including leadership in criminal justice research and teaching, all the operating agencies of criminal justice, and the many private and non-profit organizations which provide services or make policy recommendations.
School of Education
The legacy of the University at Albany began with devotion to the enhancement of education quality and practice. Founded as the New York Normal School of Teachers in 1844, the institution was the state's first public institution of higher learning, thriving as the Normal School until it expanded to become the New York State College for Teachers in 1914, and then, in 1962, the State University of New York at Albany.
The
School of Education became a reality that year as part of a multi-disciplinary university center. It remained the home of the original teacher training programs and faculty, including, from 1845 until its closing in 1977, the Milne School, the University's campus laboratory school where prospective teachers carried out their practice teaching.
Since 1962, the School has also grown in size and scope, fulfilling its mission to foster enhanced learning and human development. It is home to 1,500 graduate students in more than 30 different master’s, certificate and doctoral degree programs housed within four departments:
Educational Administration and Policy Studies,
Educational and Counseling Psychology,
Educational Theory and Practice, and
Reading. Now offering only graduate-level degree programs, the School nonetheless provides a broad range of opportunities for undergraduates to explore the field of education.
The School is home to 15 different centers and institutes which aid Capital Region schools and research a broad range of the critical educational issues of our time. These include the School’s outreach arm, the
Capital Area School Development Association, which provides services to 120 school districts; the
Center for the Elimination of Minority Health Disparities, which is funded by a three-year $1.24 million grant from the
National Institutes of HealthThe National Institutes of Health is an agency of the United States Department of Health and Human Services and is the primary agency of the United States government responsible for biomedical and health-related research. It consists of 27 separate institutes and centers which includes the Office...
; the
Center for Urban Youth and Technology; and the
National Research Center on English Learning & Achievement, which since 1987 has been funded by the U.S. Department of Education to conduct research dedicated to improving students’ English and
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achievement.
School of Public Health
The
School of Public Health, created in 1985 as a unique partnership between the University at Albany and the
New York State Department of Health. Its mission is to provide quality education, research, service, and leadership to improve public health and eliminate health disparities. Its operating vision includes designing solutions and developing models that lead the nation in addressing current and emerging public health challenges, through the creation of collaborative research, education, and practice activities.
Accredited by the
Council on Education for Public HealthThe ' is an independent agency recognized by the US Department of Education to accredit schools of public health as well as certain programs offered in settings other than in schools of public health. The Council's goal is the improvement of health through the assurance of professional personnel...
, the School offers MPH, MS, DrPH, and PhD degrees in each of four academic departments:
Biomedical Sciences;
Environmental Health Sciences;
Epidemiology & Biostatistics; and
Health Policy, Management & Behavior.
Research interests of the more than 200 doctoral-level faculty include
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, GIS, maternal and child health, hospital
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,
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s, environmental and occupational health, eldercare, minority health and health disparities. Both research faculty and students benefit from additional affiliations with Albany Medical Center and
Bassett Healthcare.
The School of Public Health's partnership with the New York State Department of Health (DOH) has world-class life sciences researchers as part of the University's research productivity. Awards for life scientists at the DOH's Wadsworth Center make up roughly a third of UAlbany's total of $391.7 million
School of Social Welfare
The
School of Social Welfare (SSW), created in 1965, boasts a faculty that consistently ranks among the top five schools of social work in the U.S. for research and scholarship and per capita productivity.
The School’s bachelor’s, master’s and Ph.D. programs in
social workSocial Work is both a profession and social science. It involves the application of social theory and research methods to study and improve the lives of people, groups, and societies...
take advantage of collaborative practices and partnerships, both regionally and throughout the world. Recent linkages have included those with an Albany elementary school challenged by poverty, an outlier regional community comprising one of the largest Latino populations in the state,
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in South Korea, and multiple partners in South African, South America, and western and eastern Europe.
Hallmarks of the School include its dedication in the area of gerontological social work, the creation of aging friendly communities, the improvement of pathways to higher education for inner city youth and families, the creation of family support agendas for the region, and re-professionalization campaigns in child welfare.
Special features of SSW include its
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-funded
Child Welfare, Drug Abuse, and Intergenerational Risk Research Center and its centers for aging, which include the
Institute of Gerontology, the
Center for Excellence in Aging Services, and the
Internships in Aging Program. Other special features include the
Center for Human Services Research, the Social Work Education Consortium — which addresses child welfare and welfare workforce development and research — and the T.E.C.H. Center, devoted to aiding the development of electronic communication capacity within human service agencies.
The Honors College
UAlbany’s newest academic entity welcomed its first student in Fall 2006, an outgrowth of a strategic plan begun in 2003. The mission was to create a “small college experience” by fostering and encouraging the creation of closely-knit cohorts of like-minded, motivated students.
The Honors College was also envisioned as a vehicle to increase faculty-student interaction early in a student’s tenure at the University.
The foundation of UAlbany’s Honors College comprises coursework, research, internships, and field-placements. All involve intense collaborations among students and professors. Rather than having a small number of professors teach an honors curriculum, professors from across the UAlbany campus teach honors courses in many disciplines. During the college's first three academic years, more than 50 UAlbany professors offered courses.
During their first two years, honors students at UAlbany explore this range of disciplines through six or more honors courses. During their next two years, students move into the honors program in their major. Throughout their time at UAlbany, students of The Honors College are offered special lectures, tours, retreats to Camp Dippikill, and other trips to expand their learning opportunities, while social events provide the students with fun time to get to know each other better.
Libraries
The
University at Albany Libraries provide more than two million volumes, and rank among the top 100 research libraries in the U.S., according to the Association of Research Libraries. Users from around the world access services and collections through the libraries' online systems and Web site. The University's libraries offer a program of information literacy and user education with instruction that ranges from a focus on traditional bibliographic access to collaborative classes integrated into the curriculum.
Gen*NY*Sis Center for Excellence in Cancer Genomics
The Gen*NY*Sis Center for Excellence in Cancer Genomics is committed to research that will discover the genetic origins of cancer and lead to finding a cure for the disease. Located on the University at Albany's East Campus in Rensselaer, the new Center combines UAlbany research expertise in genomics and biomedical sciences with state-of-the-art technology in a new facility.
The Gen*NY*Sis Center is a $45 million project which was launched with the support of the New York State's Gen*NY*Sis Program. Additional funds currently being raised from the private sector for the Center's Fund for Memory and Hope will be used for special equipment and needs of the research program.
Gen*NY*Sis Center for Excellence in Cancer Genomics has attracted prominent researchers in Cancer Genomics. Martin Tenniswood joined the Gen*NY*Sis Center for Excellence as a prestigious Empire Innovations Professor on January 25, 2008. He came from the University of Notre Dame where he had held the Coleman Foundation Endowed Chair in Life Sciences since 1998. Tenniswood has served on the editorial board for the Journal of Andrology, The Prostate and as editor of Biochemistry and Cell Biology. He is currently on the editorial board of The Journal of Biological Chemistry and is an ad hoc reviewer for ten other scholarly publications, including the Journal of American Pathology, Biochemistry, and Journal of Clinical Endocrinology and Metabolism and Science. Tenniswood studies the hormonal control of cell growth and cell death, particularly as they relate to the development, progression, and treatment of prostate and breast cancer. He has been a member of numerous national and international committees and various advisory groups at the National Cancer Institute of the National Institutes of Health.
JoEllen Welsh, PhD was appointed as an Empire Innovations Professor in the Department of Biomedical Sciences in January 2008. She is currently a charter member of the NIH Chemo and Dietary Prevention study section and also sits on grant panels for the American Institute for Cancer Research, the DOD Breast Cancer Research Program and the DOD Prostate Cancer Research Program. Since 2005, Dr. Welsh has served on the External Advisory Committee for the Marie Curie Research Training Network Grant, Systems Biology Approach to Nutrigenomics, a consortium based in Europe. The research in Dr. Welsh’s lab has been externally funded by the Medical Research Council of Canada, the National Cancer Institute, the American Institute for Cancer Research, the USDA CREES program, the Susan G. Komen Foundation and the US Army Breast Cancer Research Program.
In 2006 Dr. Roxanna Moslehi joined the Gen*NY*Sis Center for Excellence as an Assistants professor in the Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics. She previously at the National Cancer Institute where she worked with scientists at the Division of Cancer Epidemiology and Genetics ongenetic and environmental causes of different types of cancer. Her earlier work with Drs. J.M. Friedman and Steven Narod focused particularly on how genetics affects breast and ovarian cancer incidence in different ethnic groups. As a cancer epidemiologist, Dr. Moslehi is interested in how our genetic makeup, interacting with environmental factors, contribute to our risk of getting cancer.
Scott Tenenbaum, an assistant professor in biomedical sciences at UAlbany's School of Public Health and the Gen*NY*Sis Center for Excellence in Cancer Genomics, was awarded a three-year, $2.2 million grant from the National Human Genome Research Institute (NHGRI) in October 2007 to study the organization and function of human genes, which can provide insight into treating, preventing and diagnosing diseases.
Atmospheric Sciences Research Center
The
Atmospheric Sciences Research Center (ASRC), based at UAlbany, is a leading center for research in the atmospheric sciences. Established on February 16, 1961, by the
Board of Trustees, its mission is to promote and encourage programs in basic and applied sciences, especially as they relate to the atmospheric environment. The Center is connected to and shares faculty and resources with the University's
Department of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences.
ASRC performs research to study the physical and chemical nature of the atmosphere and its implications to the environment. Current research areas include boundary layers, solar radiation, radiative transfer,
atmospheric chemistryAtmospheric chemistry is a branch of atmospheric science in which the chemistry of the Earth's atmosphere and that of other planets is studied. It is a multidisciplinary field of research and draws on environmental chemistry, physics, meteorology, computer modeling, oceanography, geology and...
, aerosol physics, air quality, solar energy, cloud physics, climate systems, and air quality monitoring. In addition the Center has a large "jungle research group" exploring atmosphere and biosphere relationships in Amazonia, the Alaskan Tundra, the Canadian Boreal Forest, and the eastern U.S.
The
Climate System Sciences Section of ASRC, started in November 1989, conducts research to understand the Earth's global and regional climate system and to assess and evaluate the effects of
climate changeClimate change is a change in the statistical distribution of weather over periods of time that range from decades to millions of years. It can be a change in the average weather or a change in the distribution of weather events around an average...
caused by both human activities and nature.
Northeast Regional Forensics Institute
The Northeast Regional Forensic Institute (NERFI) at the University at Albany is an innovative organization that addresses the current high demand for trained professionals in forensic laboratories while simultaneously fostering the research required to improve the speed, accuracy, and effectiveness of future forensic analyses. The DNA Academy, NERFI’s forensic training program, is unique in its dedicated learning environment and its fast-track to DNA specialization and professional development.
Each of NERFI’s academic programs takes advantage of an unprecedented collaboration and cooperation between the University at Albany’s Department of Biological Sciences and the New York State Police Forensic Investigation Center, made possible by a 2004 grant from the National Institute of Justice.
NERFI has a growing reputation as the foremost research and training site in forensic science. Director W. Mark Dale, former director of the New York State Police Laboratory System, has collaborated with the Northeast Forensic Science Community to devise curricula for professionals already established in their careers and for students starting out in this dynamic, highly relevant field.
The Center for Social and Demographic Analysis
UAlbany’s
Center for Social and Demographic Analysis (CSDA) was established in 1981 to provide a strong research infrastructure for scholarship in the
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at the University at Albany. CSDA has since become the nexus for further investments by University administration and a variety of state and federal agencies. Positioned by these developments, CSDA officially joined the roster of NICHD Population Centers in September 1997.
Over the years, CSDA has increasingly emphasized support for interdisciplinary population research, especially the analysis of spatial inequalities (paying attention to processes of urban and regional development and their impacts on residents) and concerns for vulnerable populations (defined by race and ethnicity, age, social class, and nativity). The Center offers researchers access to first-rate computing facilities and statistical software, computing and statistical consulting, assistance with grant preparation and administration, and other related services. It also collaborates with the
Lewis Mumford Center — the University’s 20-year-old institute devoted to urban research — in efforts to disseminate data and fresh analyses of population trends revealed in the census and continuing census-related databases such as the
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and the
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.
CSDA currently has 41 faculty associates drawn from 15 departments that span the array of academic disciplines at the University. Among major research initiatives sponsored by the Center is the
Urban China Research Network (funded by the Mellon Foundation), which brings together scholars and graduate students from around the world to study implications of urban change in China. New collaborative projects include initiatives on health disparities and the environmental impacts of metropolitan growth.
Study Abroad
The Office of International Education Study Abroad & Exchanges sponsors 70
study abroad programs in 34 countries directly through UAlbany, but students can take advantage of more than 300 programs in over 80 different countries throughout the SUNY system. Among the most popular international programs for UAlbany students have been Italy, Great Britain, France and
Spain. Students study abroad any time after their freshman year, up to and including their final semester senior year. Programs are available semester-long and for the full academic year, as well as in summer and during winter session.
Rankings
UAlbany was ranked 67th nationally among the 100 Best Values in Public Colleges by
Kiplinger’s magazine in 2009 for in-state students, and 39th for out-of-state students. According to the publication, listed institutions are “noteworthy for their combination of top-flight academics and affordable costs.”
The most recent
US News ranking placed UAlbany in the third tier of universities which award doctoral degrees. UAlbany is also placed in the grouping of 91st-114th for US universities and in the grouping 201st-302nd for universities worldwide by the annual Academic Ranking of World Universities conducted by the Institute of Higher Education, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai, China.
The University is ranked 15th nationally in research expenditures among universities without a medical school faculty. It attracted a record $391.7 million in research awards in 2007-08.
The
Chronicle of Higher Education has ranked six UAlbany doctoral programs—criminal justice, educational administration, curriculum instruction, educational leadership, "teacher education in specific study areas," and social welfare—in its "Top 10" nationally in the publication's last two surveys.
UAlbany ranked 45th worldwide among universities in the
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in 2006 and 2007 and between 51-76 (no specific number given) in 2008, according to the Institute of Higher Education,
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, Shanghai, China.
The 2008 America's Best Colleges ranked by Forbes.com placed Albany at #295 and #385 in their 2009 ranking.
According to USAtoday, in 2004 the school was rated the number one party school in America.
Other Leading Program Rankings and sources:
- Criminal Justice - #2 (US News 2006)
- School of Education
- Educational and Counseling Psychology - #13 (US News 2006)
- Educational Administration - #7 (Academic Analytics 2006)
- Reading — #2 (Academic Analytics 2007)
- Curriculum and Instruction -- #10 (Academic Analytics 2007)
- Educational Evaluation and Research — #10 (Academic Analytics 2007)
- Counseling/Personnel Services — #17 (Academic Analytics 2007)
- Social Welfare - #5 (Academic Analytics 2006)
- Information Technology and Management - #2 (US News 2009)
- Africana Studies - #3 (Black Issues in Higher Education July 2004)
- Public Affairs - #14 (US News 2009)
- Public Administration and Management - #8 (US News 2009)
- Public Finance and Budgeting - #7 (US News 2009)
- Public Policy Analysis - #22 (US News 2009)
- Non-Profit Management - #18 (US News 2009)
- Clinical Psychology - #43 (US News 2009)
- Sociology - #25 (US News 2005)
- Sociology of Population - #19 (US News 2005)
- Sociology of Sex and Gender - #13 (US News 2005)
- Library Science & Information Studies - #23 (US News 2006)
- Archives and Preservation — #9 (US News 2006)
- Nanoscience and Engineering - #1 overall (ahead of #2 Cornell), #3 Michigan-Ann Arbor, #4 Rice, #5 University of Pennsylvania, and #6 Virginia (Small Times magazine)
- Atmospheric Sciences - #22 R&D Expenditures (NSF, 2006)
Uptown Campus
The Uptown Campus, the University’s main campus, is located at 1400 Washington Avenue in Albany. Its effect has been described as "Dazzling one-of-a-kind" by architectural critic Thomas A. Gaines in his
The Campus as a Work of Art (Praeger, New York, 1991). He called it "a formal masterpiece" and "a study in classical romanticism." Designed in 1961-62 by renowned American architect
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(1902-1978), the campus bears Stone’s signature style of bold unified design, expressed by its towers, domes, fountains, soaring colonnades and sweeping canopy. The result is dramatically different from traditional university campuses with dispersed buildings and disparate architectural styles. The campus exemplifies the signature style Stone used in his major projects between 1954 and 1970, including the U.S. Embassy in
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, India; the Hotel Phoenicia in
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,
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; the
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in
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;
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in Manhattan, New York; and the
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, originally the Standard Oil Building, in Chicago.
Governor Nelson A. Rockefeller envisioned a public university system to accommodate the college students of the post-World War II “
Baby BoomA baby boom is any period marked by a greatly increased birth rate. This demographic phenomenon is usually ascribed within certain geographical bounds and when the number of annual births exceeds 2% of the total population size...
’’, and as a connoisseur and patron of modern art and architecture, he encouraged many of the era’s leading modernist architects to design the campuses. Inspired by this vision and the need for a new campus accommodating 7,500 students, Stone viewed the Albany project as a powerful statement concerning the integrated nature of campus life, with facilities for learning and living all part of a unified complex comprising activities and academic. Stone’s campus composition emphasizes residential quadrangles, or “quads” — surrounding academic buildings. The quads, four large towers, each surrounded by a square of low-rise buildings, create self-contained residential environments, mimicking the residential college atmosphere of traditional European universities. At the hub of the campus is the rectangular “Academic Podium” featuring 13 three-story buildings under a single overhanging canopy roof. The Podium’s showpiece is a central pool with fountains and an off-center circular tower, or “Carillon.” The domed Main Library, the
Performing Arts Center,
Campus Center surround the pool, reflecting facets of campus life. A grand entrance welcomes visitors by way of a “great lawn” (Collins Circle) and an entry plaza. A pivotal bus route 12 station is located on Collins Circle.
On the west end of the Uptown Campus is the Albany Nanotech complex, begun in the late 1990s, still expanding, and home to the
College of Nanoscale Sciences and Engineering (see above), the bulk of UAlbany’s metrology and characterization tools, the
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(NWS), and the Atmospheric Sciences Research Center (ASRC).
In addition to the Main Library, the Uptown Campus is home to the newest of the three libraries comprising UAlbany's
University Libraries: the
Science Library, opened in September 1999.
Downtown Campus
The Downtown Campus, located at 135 Western Ave., just one mile (1.6 km) from the
New York State CapitolThe New York State Capitol is the capitol building of the U.S. state of New York. Housing the New York Legislature, it is located in the state capital of Albany on State Street in Capitol Park. The building, completed in 1899 at a cost of $25 million , was the most expensive government building of...
building and
Empire State PlazaThe Governor Nelson A. Rockefeller Empire State Plaza is a complex of several state government buildings in downtown Albany, New York.- History :...
, is the site of the original New York State College for Teachers. Construction began in 1909 on the first three buildings: Draper, Husted and Hawley halls, after the previous location on Willett Street burned down. Later additions to the campus were Richardson Hall, Page Hall and The Milne School (all in 1929), along with additions to Draper and Richardson halls (both in the 1960s).
The Downtown Campus is home to the University's
Rockefeller College of Public Affairs and Policy,
School of Criminal Justice,
College of Computing and Information, and
School of Social Welfare. It also houses one of the University's three libraries, the
Thomas E. Dewey Graduate Library, located in Hawley Hall.
East Campus
The University’s
East Campus, located in
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, is home to
UAlbany’s School of Public Health and the Cancer Research Center (CRC) which opened in 2005. Located also on the campus — which contains of lab, support and associated office space — is the
Center for Functional Genomics, which facilitates research in the areas of microarrays,
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,
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and transgenics, and some 15 private
biotechnologyBiotechnology is technology based on biology, agriculture, food science, and medicine. Modern use of the term usually refers to genetic engineering as well as cell- and tissue culture technologies...
companies — both established and those which are part of the University’s business incubator program. Biopharmaceutical giant
RegeneronRegeneron is a biotechnology company headquartered in Tarrytown, in New York, USA. The company was founded in 1988. Originally focused on neurotrophic factors and their regenerative capabilities , it branched out into the study of both cytokine and tyrosine kinase receptors - leading to the three...
has a large-scale biologics manufacturing facility adjacent to the campus where it produces the investigational products for all its clinical trials.
UAlbany and Albany Medical Center in July 2008 entered into a memorandum of understanding, to create the Institute for Biomedical Education and Research at UAlbany’s East Campus. The Institute will focus research efforts on cancer, cardiology and neurological disorders, such as Alzheimer’s Disease.
In March 2009 it was announced that
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, a local high-tech,
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, would be renting at an annual cost of $450,000 per year, starting in time for the 2009—2010 school year.
Uptown Campus Housing
The Uptown Campus is home to six of the University's seven residential complexes. Four of these — Indian Quad, Dutch Quad, Colonial Quad, and State Quad — sit at the Academic Podium's corners; each consists of eight three-story, low-rise buildings encircling a 22-story tower with a total capacity of 1,200 students each. The four quads serve as a chronological timeline of New York State history, beginning with Indian Quad, moving clockwise to Dutch, then Colonial, and finally, State. The other two, Freedom Apartments and
Empire Commons, are reserved for juniors and seniors. These are "apartment-style" residences and include kitchens, furnished living rooms, and, on Empire Commons, washers, dryers, dishwashers, single bedrooms, and central air conditioning.
The Uptown Campus also contains special housing for students in the honors college. This housing, offered to incoming freshmen and returning sophomores, is found on State Quad in the Melville and Steinmetz halls. These recently renovated halls provide moderately better rooms with improved lighting and greater floor space. Renovations are currently being done on halls on Indian, State and Alumni Quads.
Downtown Housing
Alumni Quad, one of the University's seven residential complexes, is a short distance away from the Downtown Campus. Its name commemorates the Alumni Association, which purchased most of the land on which the complex stands and funded the construction of the first two residence halls, Pierce and Sayles, which opened in 1935 and 1941. (Brubacher, Alden and Waterbury halls, which completed the quadrangle’s edifices, opened in 1951, 1958, and 1959, respectively.) Students living on Alumni are typically sophomores, transfer students and international students. The murder of Richard J. Bailey in October, has made students take extra precautions, around the quad and the entire Pine Hills community which is rich with SUNY Albany students.
Campus Center
The Campus Center, located on the Uptown Campus Podium, is the community center of the University at Albany, serving students, faculty, professional staff, alumni, and guests. Traditionally considered the "hearthstone" or "living room" of the campus, the Campus Center provides services and conveniences that include lounging areas, several cafeterias, a Barnes & Noble bookstore, and many national chain eateries. The multi-faceted structure is the site for numerous informal and formal interactions, the latter including the meetings of many student-run clubs, academic conferences, and cultural functions.
The Center’s Facilities & Operations staff coordinates and manages eight meeting rooms in all, as well as a ballroom. Together they comprise the conference portion of this multi-faceted facility. During the academic year, the Center’s meeting rooms host over 9,000 persons per month. The lobby and exterior areas of the building, the latter which commands a small fountain, are notable for the tabling done by individuals and groups; their purposes include ticket sales, craft items, other vending sponsored by campus organizations, political activism, charitable fundraising, and general campus information.
Performing Arts Center
A bustling hub of activity, the
Performing Arts Center (PAC) is a spectacular facility on the Uptown Campus boasting five unique performance spaces. Music, dance, theater, international artists, guest lecturers, and collaborations occur in the Main Theater, Recital Hall, Arena Theatre, Studio Theatre, and Lab Theatre. The Main Theatre is the largest theater space on the Uptown Campus holding 500 people. Designed for music performance, the Recital Hall seats 242 people, 197 on the orchestra level and 45 in the nine circular boxes on the second level of the auditorium. The Arena Theatre is used primarily for Theatre performances and acting classes and seats 196. The Studio Theatre seats 153 people. The Lab Theatre is a 50' square "black box" theater. The Lab can seat up to 200 audience members in any seating configuration.
University Art Museum
The University's
art museum is centrally located on the Uptown Campus. Designed by architect Edward Durell Stone, its interior is an iconic example of late 20th Century modernism. Its three galleries provide over of exhibition space for six to eight changing exhibitions per year.
Since its inaugural exhibition in 1967,
Paintings and Sculpture from the Nelson A. Rockefeller Collection, the museum maintains a commitment to presenting contemporary art exhibitions that connect community and worldviews with the multi-disciplinary resources of the University.
Page Hall
Page Hall is a classic old proscenium theater located on the downtown campus of the University at Albany, at 135 Western Avenue. The auditorium has a total capacity of 830: 439 seats on the orchestra level; 391 in the balcony. Page Hall's excellent location, combined with its large seating capacity, make it a favorite site for community events and performances. The film series of the New York State Writer's Institute is presented primarily at Page Hall.
Conference Facilities
The Science Library (LIE for Library Extension), University Hall, University Art Museum, Life Science Research Building (LSRB), Gen*NY*sis Center for Excellence in Cancer Genomics, NanoFab South (NFS), NanoFab North (NFN), NanoFab East (NFE), Center for Emerging Sciences and Technology Management (CESTM), Alumni House, Chapel House and the Empire Commons community building all feature atria, auditoriums, and/or meeting rooms of various sizes.
Noted faculty
- Manuel Alvar (1977-98), head of the Spanish Royal Academy, world renowned for his linguistic atlases of Spain and Spanish South America. Born 1923, died 2001.
- Victor Asal (2003 - present), political science. Expert on terrorism
Terrorism is the systematic use of terror especially as a means of coercion.At present, there is no internationally agreed definition of terrorism...
and director of the Certificate Program in Public Security.
- Gonzalo Torrente Ballester
Gonzalo Torrente Ballester was a Galician writer in Spanish language. He was born in Serantes, Ferrol, Galicia, and received his first education there, subsequently attending the universities of Santiago de Compostela and Oviedo.Although primarily a novelist, he also published journalism, essays,...
(1966-70), Spanish Novelist (1910-1999); won Cervantes Prize in 1985. Born 1910, died 1999.
- Ronald A. Bosco
Ronald A. Bosco is the Distinguished Professor of English and American Literature at the University at Albany, State University of New York, is currently President of the Association for Documentary Editing and General Editor of published by Harvard University Press...
(1975 - present), Distinguished University Professor of English & American Literature (2004), SUNY Distinguished Service Professor(1992). President, Association for Documentary Editing. General Editor, The Collected Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson, Harvard; has edited, co-edited (primarily with Joel Myerson), and authored over 20 volumes on Emerson, Thoreau, Hawthorne, Michael Wigglesworth, and Cotton Mather.
- Don Byrd
Donald J. Byrd is a poet, sound artist, and Professor of English at the State University of New York at Albany. His work is generally in the fields of literary analysis and information theory...
(1971 - present), poet and literary critic. His works include his poetry collection Technics of Travel, the book-length poems The Great Dimestore Centennial and Aesop's Garden, an analysis of Charles OlsonCharles Olson , was an important 2nd generation American modernist poet who was a crucial link between earlier figures like Ezra Pound and William Carlos Williams and the New American poets, a rubric which includes the New York School, the Black Mountain School, the Beat poets, and the San...
's Maximus, and his masterpiece of literary analysis The Poetics of the Common Knowledge.
- Joachim Frank (1976 - present), computational biologist, School of Public Health, and investigator with the Howard Hughes Medical Institute at New York State’s Wadsworth Center
The Wadsworth Center, located in Albany, New York, is the research-intensive public health laboratory of the New York State Department of Health. The Wadsworth Center is dedicated to science in the pursuit of health.-History:...
. Elected in 2006 to National Academy of Sciences and named a fellow of the American Academy of Arts & Sciences.
- Phyllis Galembo (1978 - present), Fine Art Photographer, known for photographing African Masquerades.
- Gordon G. Gallup
Gordon G. Gallup, Jr. is a psychologist currently working at the University at Albany's Psychology department in the biopsychology program area. He received his Ph.D. from Washington State University in 1968, after which he joined the faculty of the Psychology Department at Tulane University...
(1975 - present), evolutionary psychologistEvolutionary psychology attempts to explain psychological traits—such as memory, perception, or language—as adaptations, that is, as the functional products of natural selection or sexual selection. Adaptationist thinking about physiological mechanisms, such as the heart, lungs, and immune system,...
; developed the mirror testThe mirror test is a measure of self-awareness developed by Gordon Gallup Jr. in 1970, that was based in part on observations made by Charles Darwin. While visiting a zoo, Darwin held a mirror up to an orangutan and recorded the animal's reaction, which included making a series of facial expressions...
.
- Leonard Kastle
Leonard Gregory Kastle is an opera composer, librettist, and director, though he is best known as the writer/director of The Honeymoon Killers, his only venture into the cinema, for which he did all his own research. He was educated at the Curtis Institute of Music studying under opera composer...
(1978-89), director of The Honeymoon KillersThe Honeymoon Killers is a American film written and directed by Leonard Kastle, and starring Shirley Stoler and Tony Lo Bianco. It tells the story of Martha Beck and Raymond Fernandez, the notorious "Lonely Hearts Killers" who murdered at least 12 women in the 1940s...
and notable American opera composer Of Deseret, The Pariahs and others
- William Kennedy
William Joseph Kennedy is an American writer and journalist born and raised in Albany, New York. Many of his novels feature the interaction of members of the fictional Irish-American Phelan family, and make use of incidents of Albany's history and the supernatural...
(1974 - present), 1984 winner of Pulitzer Prize for fictionThe Pulitzer Prize for Fiction has been awarded since 1948 for distinguished fiction by an American author, preferably dealing with American life. It replaced the Pulitzer Prize for the Novel.* 1948: Tales of the South Pacific by James A. Michener...
for novel Ironweed. Taught creative writing and journalism as UAlbany instructor from 1974 to 1982, thereafter full professor of creative writing. In 1983, awarded the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation Fellowship, part of which went to UAlbany to create the UAlbany-based New York State Writers Institute.
- Michael J. Malbin
Michael J. Malbin is the executive director of the Campaign Finance Institute in Washington DC, which he helped found in 1999, and professor of Political Science at the University at Albany, The State University of New York...
(1990 - present), political science. Expert on campaign finance; former speech writer to Richard B. Cheney.
- Jon Mandle
Jonathan Mandle is currently the Department Chair and Associate Professor of Philosophy at the University at Albany, SUNY. He is a member of the Crooked Timber group blog...
(1994 - present), philosopher. Works on issues of political theory and global justice. Author of What's Left of Liberalism? An Interpretation and Defense of Justice as Fairness and Global Justice: An Introduction.
- Ron McClamrock
Ronald Albert McClamrock, usually known as Ron McClamrock, is an associate professor of philosophy at the University at Albany, The State University of New York...
(1992 - present), philosopher. Works at the intersection of phenomenology and psychology. Author of Existential Cognition: Minds in the World.
- Toni Morrison
Toni Morrison is a Nobel Prize-winning American author, editor, and professor. Her novels are known for their epic themes, vivid dialogue, and richly detailed black characters...
(1985-89), author, Nobel and Pulitzer Prize-winning author. Works include BelovedBeloved is a Pulitzer Prize-winning novel by Nobel laureate Toni Morrison. The novel, her fifth, is loosely based on the life and legal case of the slave Margaret Garner, about whom Morrison later wrote in the opera Margaret Garner...
, The Bluest EyeThe Bluest Eye is a 1970 novel by American author and Nobel Prize recipient Toni Morrison. It is Morrison's first novel, written while Morrison was teaching at Howard University and was raising her two sons on her own. The story is about a year in the life of a young black girl in Lorain, Ohio...
, and Song of SolomonSong of Solomon is a 1977 novel by Pulitzer and Nobel Prize-winning American author Toni Morrison. It follows the life of Macon "Milkman" Dead III, an African-American male living in Michigan, from birth to adulthood....
.
- Paul Pimsleur
Paul Pimsleur was an authority in the field of applied linguistics.Pimsleur grew up in New York City and earned a bachelor's degree at the City College of New York and a Ph.D...
(1970-76), linguist, educator and researcher of the language acquisition process. Author of Pimsleur Language Series.
- Vincent Schaefer
Vincent Joseph Schaefer was an American chemist and meteorologist who developed cloud seeding. On November 13, 1946, while a researcher at the General Electric Research Laboratory, Schaefer modified clouds in the Berkshire Mountains by seeding them with dry ice...
(deceased), founder and longtime director of the Atmospheric Science Research Center (ASRC); discovered the first successful method of cloud seeding, with dry ice. Born 1927, died 1976.
- Richard E. Stearns,emeritus (1978 - 2000), Turing award
The A. M. Turing Award is given annually by the Association for Computing Machinery to "an individual selected for contributions of a technical nature made to the computing community. The contributions should be of lasting and major technical importance to the computer field"...
winner for computational complexity theory.
- Bonnie Steinbock
Bonnie L. Steinbock is a professor of philosophy at the University at Albany and a specialist in bioethics who has written on topics such as abortion and animal rights. Questions from her examinations have appeared in the "Education Life" section of the New York Times. Steinbock received her Ph.D....
(1977 - present), philosopher. Noted expert on reproductive ethics. Former chair of philosophy department.
- Bernard Vonnegut
Dr. Bernard Vonnegut was an American atmospheric scientist credited with discovering that silver iodide could be used effectively in cloud seeding to produce snow and rain. He is the older brother of American novelist Kurt Vonnegut.Vonnegut was born in Indianapolis, Indiana. He attended the...
(1967 - 85), atmospheric scientist renowned for his expertise in the physics of lightning. As a colleague of Vincent Schaefer at General Electric in 1946, discovered silver iodide method of cloud-seeding. Older brother of author Kurt VonnegutKurt Vonnegut, Jr. was an American novelist known for works blending satire, black comedy, and science fiction including Slaughterhouse-Five , Cat's Cradle , and Breakfast of Champions...
. Born 1914, died 1997.
Noted alumni
- Frances E. Allen
Frances Elizabeth "Fran" Allen is an American computer scientist and pioneer in the field of optimizing compilers. Her achievements include seminal work in compilers, code optimization, and parallelization...
(1954), IBM FellowAn IBM Fellow is an appointed position at IBM made by IBM’s CEO. Typically only 4 to 9 IBM Fellows are appointed each year, at the annual Corporate Technical Recognition Event in May or June. It is the highest honor a scientist, engineer, or programmer at IBM can achieve.The IBM Fellows program...
, 2006 Turing AwardThe A. M. Turing Award is given annually by the Association for Computing Machinery to "an individual selected for contributions of a technical nature made to the computing community. The contributions should be of lasting and major technical importance to the computer field"...
Winner.
- Mike Arcuri
Michael Angelo "Mike" Arcuri is presently serving his second term in the United States House of Representatives. Arcuri represents . The district encompasses a large swath of central New York, including Utica, Auburn, Rome and most of the suburbs of Binghamton.-Biography:Michael Arcuri graduated...
(1981), former District AttorneyIn many jurisdictions in the United States, a District Attorney is the appointed public official who represents the government in the prosecution of alleged offense criminals. The district attorney is the highest officeholder in the jurisdiction's legal department and supervises a staff of...
for Oneida County, New YorkOneida County is a county located in the U.S. state of New York. As of the 2000 census, the population was 235,469. The county seat is Utica. The name is in honor of the Oneida, an Iroquoian tribe that formerly occupied the region....
and congressional representative for New York's 24th congressional districtThe 24th Congressional District of New York includes all or parts of Broome, Cayuga, Chenango, Cortland, Herkimer, Oneida, Ontario, Otsego, Seneca, Tioga and Tompkins counties....
- Rashad Barksdale
Rashad Emmanuel Unique Barksdale is an American football cornerback for the Arizona Cardinals of the National Football League. He was drafted by the Philadelphia Eagles in the sixth round of the 2007 NFL Draft...
(2007), NFL cornerback
- Catherine Bertini
Catherine Ann Bertini is an American public servant. She has become perhaps best known for her work in highlighting the pivotal role of women in food distribution, pioneering the use of food aid to empower women and girls, and ensuring that women are represented fully at all levels throughout...
(1971), former Executive Director, United Nations World Food Programme, Fellow of the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation
- Sallie W. Chisholm
Sallie W. Chisholm is a U.S. biological oceanographer. She attended Skidmore College and received her Ph.D. from the SUNY Albany in 1974. Since 1976, she has been a member of the faculty at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where she is the McAfee Professor of Engineering.Chisholm's...
(PhD 1974), noted biological oceanographer and professor at MIT.
- Tom Clarke
Tom Clarke or Thomas Clarke may refer to:* Tom Clarke , Lead singer of The Enemy* Tom Clarke , British Member of Parliament...
(1973), president of new business ventures for Nike, Inc.
- Rosa Clemente
Rosa Alicia Clemente is a United States community organizer, independent journalist and hip-hop activist. She was the vice presidential running mate of 2008 Green Party Presidential candidate Cynthia McKinney in the 2008 U.S. Presidential election.Clemente was born and raised in South Bronx, New...
2008 Green PartyThe Green Party of the United States is one of the political parties in the United States, and similar in mission to many of the worldwide Green Parties. The Greens, a voluntary association of state parties, have been active as a nationally recognized political party since 2001...
vice presidentialThe Vice President of the United States is the holder of a public office created by the United States Constitution. The Vice President, together with the President of the United States, is indirectly elected by the people through the Electoral College to a four-year term...
candidate.
- Randy Cohen
Randy Cohen is an American Emmy Award-winning writer and humorist known since 1999 as the author of The Ethicist column in The New York Times Magazine. Cohen's column is syndicated throughout the U.S. and Canada.-Career:...
(1971), former writer for Late Night with David LettermanLate Night with David Letterman is a nightly hour-long comedy talk show on NBC hosted by David Letterman. It premiered in 1982 and went off the air in 1993, after Letterman left NBC and moved to The Late Show on CBS. Late Night with Conan O'Brien then filled the time slot...
, currently writes 'The Ethicist' column for The New York Times Magazine and regularly answers ethical questions from listeners of "All Things ConsideredAll Things Considered is National Public Radio's flagship news program. It was the first news program on the network, and is broadcast live worldwide through several outlets...
".
- Alan M. Davis
Alan Mark Davis is Professor in the College of Business at the University of Colorado at Colorado Springs. Davis earned his Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 1975. He has held academic positions at George Mason University and the University of...
(1970), IEEE Fellow for contributions to software engineering, author, entrepreneur.
- Abdirahman Mohamud Farole
Abdirahman Mohamud Farole is the fourth and current President of Puntland.-Biography:Farole was born in the Nugaal region of Somalia in 1945. He first pursued his post-secondary education locally, earning a Diploma of Public Health in 1964 from the Scuola Professionale Sanitaria in Mogadishu, the...
(1990), President of the PuntlandPuntland is a region in northeastern Somalia, centered on Garowe , whose leaders declared it an autonomous state in 1998. A third of Somalia's population lives in the province, which likewise represents about a third of the nation's geographical area. Unlike neighbouring Somaliland, Puntland does...
region of SomaliaSomalia , officially the Republic of Somalia and formerly known as the Somali Democratic Republic, is a country located in the Horn of Africa...
.
- Jamie Gold
Jamie M. Gold is an American television producer, a talent agent, and poker player, based in Malibu, California. He is known for winning the 2006 World Series of Poker Main Event and currently divides his time between his activities as president of production for the entertainment company,...
(1991), American television producer and 2006 World Series of PokerThe World Series of Poker is a poker tournament held annually in Las Vegas. The first WSOP in 1970 was an invitational wherein Benny Binion invited six of the best known poker players to The Horseshoe Casino. At first, the WSOP grew slowly. It was twelve years before the WSOP drew 52...
Main Event Champion.
- Harold Gould
Harold V. Goldstein , best known by his stage name Harold Gould, is an American actor best known for playing Martin Morgenstern in the 1970s sitcoms Rhoda and The Mary Tyler Moore Show and as Miles Webber on The Golden Girls...
(1947), actor in movie The StingThe Sting is a 1973 caper film set in September 1936 and revolving around a complicated plot by two professional grifters to con a mob boss . The story, created by screenwriter David S...
, TV series RhodaRhoda is an American television sitcom starring Valerie Harper. It was a spin-off from The Mary Tyler Moore Show and ran for five seasons between 1974-1978. Harper played the lead role of Rhoda Morgenstern, who was the spunky, weight conscious, flamboyantly-fashioned best friend of Mary Richards...
and Golden Girls.
- Stephen Adly Guirgis
Stephen Adly Guirgis is an American playwright, screenwriter, and actor. He has been a member of New York City's LAByrinth Company since 1994. His plays have been produced on five continents and throughout the United States...
(1990), playwright (Jesus Hopped the A Train, Our Lady of 121st Street).
- Steve Guttenberg
Steven Robert "Steve" Guttenberg is an American actor and comedian. He became known during the 1980s, after a series of starring roles in major Hollywood films, including Cocoon, Three Men and a Baby, Police Academy, and Short Circuit. In 2008 Guttenberg was one of 12 contestants on the 6th season...
, actor
- Lawrence Korb
Lawrence J. Korb , is a Senior Fellow at the Center for American Progress and a Senior Adviser to the Center for Defense Information...
(PhD, 1969), Council on Foreign RelationsThe Council on Foreign Relations is an American nonprofit and nonpartisan membership organization dedicated to improving the understanding of U.S. foreign policy and international affairs...
and Center for American Progress, Assistant Secretary of Defense (1981-85).
- John Kourakos
-Early life:Born in Manhattan, raised in the Bronx. His mother was a school aide and his father owned a shoe-repair shop.-Education:Started at Rockland Community College, he transferred to the University at Albany in 1969....
(1971), president of Tommy JeansThomas Jacob "Tommy" Hilfiger is an American fashion designer and founder of the brand Tommy Hilfiger.-Early life:Hilfiger was born and raised in Elmira, New York. The second of eight children, he grew up in an Irish-American family; he claims direct descent from Robert Burns. His parents...
.
- Brian Lehrer
Brian Lehrer is a radio talk show host on New York City's public radio station WNYC. His daily two-hour 2007 Peabody Award-winning program, The Brian Lehrer Show, features interviews with newsmakers and experts about current events and social issues...
(1973), radioRadio is the transmission of signals by modulation of electromagnetic waves with frequencies below those of visible light. Electromagnetic radiation travels by means of oscillating electromagnetic fields that pass through the air and the vacuum of space...
talk showA talk show or chat show is a television or radio program where one person or group of people come together to discuss various topics put forth by a talk show host...
host.
- Gregory Maguire
Gregory Maguire is an American author. He is the author of the novels Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West, Confessions of an Ugly Stepsister, and many other novels for adults and children...
(1976), author of the books Confessions of an Ugly StepsisterConfessions of an Ugly Stepsister is a novel by Gregory Maguire, retelling the tale of Cinderella through the eyes of one of her "ugly stepsisters." In 2002, the book was adapted into a TV movie of the same name, directed by Gavin Millar.-Plot:...
and WickedWicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West, is a parallel novel published in 1995. It was written by Gregory Maguire and illustrated by Douglas Smith. Based upon the writings of L...
(which became a Broadway musicalBroadway Theatre, commonly called simply Broadway, is the theatre associated with the 40 large professional theaters with 500 seats or more located in the Theatre District, New York in Manhattan, New York City...
).
- Philip Markoff
Philip Haynes Markoff is an American former medical student charged with the armed robbery and murder of Julissa Brisman in a Boston, Massachusetts hotel on April 14, 2009. He was also charged with the armed robbery of another woman on April 10 in another Boston hotel...
(2007).
- John M. McHugh
John Michael McHugh is the 21st United States Secretary of the Army and a former Republican politician from the state of New York, formerly representing the state's 23rd congressional district in the United States House of Representatives.On June 2, 2009, President Barack Obama nominated him to...
(MPA 1977), congressman from New York's 23rd congressional districtThe 23rd Congressional District of New York is a congressional district for the United States House of Representatives in Northern New York. The district includes all or parts of Clinton, Essex, Franklin, Fulton, Hamilton, Jefferson, Lewis, Madison, Oneida, Oswego and St. Lawrence counties. It...
1993-2009. Secretary of the United States Army 2009-
- Harvey Milk
Harvey Bernard Milk was an American politician and the first openly gay man to be elected to public office in California, as a member of the San Francisco Board of Supervisors...
(1951), gay rights figure, former San Francisco city supervisor, assassinated 1978.
- Susan Molinari
Susan Molinari is a politician, journalist, and lobbyist from New York. She was a member of the U.S. House of Representatives for three terms.-Early life and family:...
(B.A. 1980, M.A. 1982), former NY Congresswoman, Staten Island.
- Michael Nolin
Michael Nolin is an American motion picture producer, studio executive, writer/director and educator.-Biography:Nolin went to film school at the University of Southern California and began his career as a clerk typist in the MGM story department...
(B.A. 1970), Motion Picture studio executive, producer Mr. Holland's OpusMr. Holland's Opus is a Technicolor 1995 drama film in which Richard Dreyfuss plays Glenn Holland, a musician and composer who takes a teaching job to pay the rent while trying to compose one memorable piece of music to make him famous...
, screenwriter Maniac MageeManiac Magee is a Newbery medal-winning young adult fiction novel written by American author Jerry Spinelli and published in 1990. Exploring themes of racism and homelessness, it follows the story of an orphaned boy looking for a home in the fictional Pennsylvania town of Two Mills...
, professor Savannah College of Art and DesignThe Savannah College of Art and Design is a private university with campuses located in Savannah and Atlanta and Lacoste ,-Academics:...
.
- John Ortiz
John Ortiz is an American actor and Artistic Director/Co-Founder of LAByrinth Theater Company.-Career:In 1993, John made his film debut as Al Pacino’s young cousin ‘Guajiro’ in Carlito’s Way. He went on to appear in over 30 films including El Cantante, Take the Lead, Before Night Falls, Amistad,...
, actor TV series The JobThe Job is a single-camera television comedy about a New York City police officer named Mike McNeil -- who indulges in adultery, alcohol, cigarettes and prescription drug abuse—and his fellow 'bumbling detective' pals...
, films Carlito's WayCarlito's Way is a 1993 crime film based on the novel After Hours by Judge Edwin Torres. The film adaptation was scripted by David Koepp and directed by Brian De Palma. It stars Al Pacino, Sean Penn, Penelope Ann Miller, Luis Guzman, John Leguizamo, Jorge Porcel, Joseph Siravo and Viggo Mortensen...
, Miami ViceMiami Vice is an American television series produced by Michael Mann for NBC. The show became noted for its heavy integration of music and visual effects to tell a story. The series starred Don Johnson and Phillip Michael Thomas as two Metro-Dade Police Department detectives working undercover in...
and American Gangster).
- Joseph E. Persico
Joseph E. Persico is an author. From 1974 to 1977 he was primary speechwriter to Vice President Nelson Rockefeller. He now lives in Guilderland, New York...
(1952), best-selling author (Nuremberg: Infamy on Trial), biographer (Edward R. Murrow, Nelson Rockefeller, William Casey), former Nelson Rockefeller speechwriter
- Lois Privor-Dumm
Lois Privor-Dumm is a respected expert in the field of vaccine introduction. She is especially recognized for her work with new vaccines in the US, Latin America, Europe, the Middle East, and Africa.-Background and Education:...
(1986), director, Alliances and Information for PneumoADIPPneumococcal vaccines Accelerated Development and Introduction Plan is a small, dedicated team based at Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health and is supported by a $30 million grant from the Global Alliance for Vaccines and Immunization...
, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public HealthThe Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health is part of Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, Maryland, United States. As the oldest and largest public health training facility in the world, the Bloomberg School is a leading international authority on the improvement of health and...
.
- Howard Reig
Howard Reig was a radio and television announcer.-Biography:He was a staff announcer for General Electric starting in 1943 and the National Broadcasting Company from 1952 to 2005...
(1942), radio and television announcer.
- Bob Ryan
Bob Ryan is a meteorologist, currently forecasting for WRC-TV in Washington, D.C. He has served as the station's chief meteorologist since 1980, and was previously the Today Show's first on-air meteorologist which was also the first network television meteorologist position...
(1967), lead weatherman, WRC-TV (Channel 4, NBC affiliate in Washington, D.C.Washington, D.C. , formally the District of Columbia and commonly referred to as Washington, the District, or simply D.C., is the capital of the United States, founded on July 16, 1790...
).
- Celal Sengor
Ali Mehmet Celâl Şengör is a well-known Turkish geologist. He is currently on the faculty at Istanbul Technical University, Department of Geological Engineering. He got his PhD at the State University of New York, Albany in 1982. He is the first Turkish academic to get elected as a foreign...
(1982), Turkish geologist, foreign member of the American Philosophical SocietyThe American Philosophical Society is a discussion group founded in 1743 by Benjamin Franklin as an offshoot of his earlier club, the Junto...
.
- Norman E. Snyder
Norman E. Snyder is an American entrepreneur and philanthropist.-Claims to Fame:*Co-founder of SoBe energy drink*COO of Rheingold Brewing Co.-Education:Graduated in 1983 from the University at Albany with a degree in Accounting...
(1983), co-founder of SoBeSoBe is a brand of teas, fruit-juice blends and enhanced water beverages. The name SoBe is an abbreviation of South Beach, named after the upscale area located in Miami, Florida. In the past, the SoBe name also has been licensed for gum and chocolate products.-Company history:SoBe began as the...
.
- William J. Taverner
William J. Taverner, MA, is the editor of the American Journal of Sexuality Education and the director of the Center for Family Life Education...
(1990), editor of American Journal of Sexuality EducationThe American Journal of Sexuality Education, first published in 2005, is an academic journal published by Routledge. It publishes articles on current research, programmatic overviews, resource reviews, and other articles related to sexuality education. The journal is edited by William J...
- Christine A. Varney
Christine A. Varney is an American lawyer lobbyist, and internet policy expert who served as personnel counsel for the Obama-Biden Transition Project...
, (1977), Assistant Attorney General, United States Department of Justice Antitrust DivisionThe United States Department of Justice Antitrust Division is responsible for enforcing the antitrust laws of the United States. It shares jurisdiction over civil antitrust cases with the Federal Trade Commission and often works jointly with the FTC to provide regulatory guidance to businesses...
.
- Gerhard Weinberg
Gerhard Ludwig Weinberg is a German-born American diplomatic and military historian noted for his studies in the history of World War II. Weinberg currently is the William Rand Kenan, Jr. Professor Emeritus of History at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He has been a member of the...
(1948), American diplomatic and military historian.
- Richard C. Wesley
Richard C. Wesley is a federal judge on the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit.- Education and background :...
(1971), judge on the U.S. Court of Appeals, 2nd Circuit.
- D.B. Woodside (1991), actor on TV series Buffy the Vampire Slayer and 24
24 is an American serial action/drama television series. Broadcast by Fox in the United States and syndicated worldwide, the show first aired on November 6, 2001, with an initial 13 episodes...
.
Student Association
The Student Association, or SA, is the UAlbany umbrella organization encompassing all student-oriented activities on campus. SA runs all concerts, comedy shows and intramural sports, and funds more than 250 students groups. The SA impacts students in the classroom as well, through funding of general education courses. Similar to the U.S. government, SA consists of 3 branches: executive, legislative (Student Association Senate), and judicial (Supreme Court).[5] Up until 2009, Albany Student Television, known as ATV, was directly part of SA.
The Student Association owns an 850 acre (3.4 km²) wilderness retreat facility in the
Adirondack MountainsThe Adirondack Mountains are a mountain range located in the northeastern part of New York, that runs through Clinton, Essex, Franklin, Fulton, Hamilton, Herkimer, Lewis, Saint Lawrence, Saratoga, Warren, and Washington counties....
called Camp Dippikill. The cabins and campsites at Dippikill are open to reservations from the University’s undergraduates, graduate students, alumni, faculty and staff.
Athletics
University at Albany intercollegiate athletics date back to the late 1890s, but its development was hampered for several decades by inadequate facilities, by uncertain financial support, and the relatively small number of male students in an institution designed to develop elementary school teachers. Tennis remained a constant from 1898 on and men’s
basketballBasketball is a team sport in which two teams of 5 players try to score points against one another by placing a ball through a
10 foot high hoop under organized rules...
dates back to 1909, but attempts to field teams in football (1922),
baseballBaseball is a bat-and-ball sport played between two teams of nine players each. The goal is to score runs by hitting a thrown ball with a bat and touching a series of four bases arranged at the corners of a ninety-foot square, or diamond...
(1896-1901),
swimmingThe aquatic sport of swimming involves competition amongst participants to be the fastest over a given distance under self propulsion.The different events include 25, 50, 100, 200, breaststroke, backstroke and butterfly, the 25, 50, 100, 200, 400, 500, 800, 1000, 1500, and 1650 free and the 100,...
and
hockeyHockey is any of a family of sports in which two teams play against each other by trying to maneuver a ball, or a hard, round, rubber or heavy plastic disc called a puck, into the opponent's net or goal, using a hockey stick.-Field hockey:...
were aborted. Expansion into men’s and women’s sports increased after
World War IIWorld War II, or the Second World War , was a global military conflict which involved a majority of the world's nations, including all great powers, organized into two opposing military alliances: the Allies and the Axis...
, and then expanded greatly in the 1960s (men’s sports of
lacrosseLacrosse is a team sport of Native American origin that is played using a small solid rubber ball and a long-handled racquet called a crosse or lacrosse stick. The head of the lacrosse stick is strung with loose netting that is designed to hold the lacrosse ball...
, track & field, cross-country and
swimmingThe aquatic sport of swimming involves competition amongst participants to be the fastest over a given distance under self propulsion.The different events include 25, 50, 100, 200, breaststroke, backstroke and butterfly, the 25, 50, 100, 200, 400, 500, 800, 1000, 1500, and 1650 free and the 100,...
moved from club to varsity status, and women’s
tennisTennis is a sport played between two players or between two teams of two players each . Each player uses a strung racquet to strike a hollow rubber ball covered with felt over a net into the opponent's court....
,
softballSoftball is a team sport popular especially in the United States. It is a direct descendant of baseball. Some key differences between softball and baseball are that softballs are larger than baseballs, and pitches are thrown underhand rather than overhand. Softball was invented by George Hancock...
,
field hockeyField hockey is a team sport in which a team of players attempt to score goals by hitting, pushing or flicking the ball with hockey sticks into the opposing team's goal. Its official name is simply hockey, and this is the common name for it in many countries...
, basketball and swimming were introduced), a direct result of the introduction of the new Uptown Campus (see item above) and its expanded athletic facilities. A nickname change also occurred, the Pedagogues becoming the Great Danes — making UAlbany the only American college or university with that mascot.
After the 1972 NCAA restructuring, UAlbany competed in
Division IIIDivision III is a division of the National Collegiate Athletic Association of the United States.-Membership:The division consists of colleges and universities that choose not to offer athletically related financial aid to their student-athletes...
athletics until the 1995-96 school year, when it moved to the
Division IIDivision II is an intermediate-level division of competition in the National Collegiate Athletic Association. It offers an alternative to both the highly competitive level of intercollegiate sports offered in NCAA Division I and to the non-scholarship level offered in Division III...
level as part of a transition to
Division IDivision I is the highest level of intercollegiate athletics sanctioned by the National Collegiate Athletic Association in the United States....
competition. That process was completed in the fall of 1999; UAlbany now has 19 varsity sports (8 men, 11 women) competing at the Division I level. All athletic programs are run by the University’s Department of Athletics and Recreation.
In the history of University at Albany sports, two names have stood out most prominently: men’s basketball coach Richard “Doc” Sauers and football coach Robert Ford. Sauers, one of the winningest coaches in the history of college basketball with 702 victories, led the UAlbany men's basketball program to eleven NCAA and four
NAIAThe National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics is an athletic association that organizes college and university-level athletic programs. Membership in the NAIA consists of smaller colleges and universities across the United States. The NAIA permits membership to colleges and universities...
post-season tournament appearances between 1955 and 1997. His teams averaged more than 17 wins per season, and had but one losing campaign.
Ford, who has been UAlbany's only head coach since the football program was reinstated after a 46-year absence in 1970, has compiled a 35-year varsity record of 216-139 as the Great Danes mentor. His 225 career victories rank second among active NCAA Football Championship Subdivision head coaches. Honored in 2005 by the 69th Maxwell Awards for recording his 200th career win, in his career he has been named Northeast Conference Coach of the Year,
Gordon WhiteGordon Charles White was a South African cricketer who played in 17 Tests from 1906 to 1912.White was born in Port St Johns, Cape Province. He died in 1918 in Gaza, Palestine.-References:*...
- Herschel Nissenson Division II Coach of the Year, and Eastern Football Conference Coach of the Year.
Other than the sport of football, the school’s teams have been members of the
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since 2001. Football participates in the Football Championship Subdivision level (formerly Division I-AA) as an associate member of the Northeast Conference.
In addition to varsity sports, UAlbany competes in many sports at the club level such as swimming, men's hockey,
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, crew
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SEFCU Arena
In the spring of 1992, the University opened SEFCU Arena, an $11 million state-of-the-art facility. SEFCU Arena is the home for UAlbany’s men’s and women’s basketball teams, and has an .11 mile indoor track. The 5,000-seat arena also serves as a major venue for community events such as rock and pop concerts, sporting events and University activities.
In addition, SEFCU Arena contains a fitness center with Nautilus and Universal machines, rowing ergometers and exercise bikes; four racquetball/handball courts and four squash courts; athletic training and rehabilitation facilities with three whirlpool baths, a musculoskeletal evaluation device and other therapeutic machines. SEFCU Arena also houses numerous team and general use locker rooms, as well as an indoor practice facility for the women's golf team.
SEFCU Arena and Physical Education Building were recently air-conditioned, as the state appropriated funds for renovations and permanent improvements to the University's facilities. The $2.3 million in funding was prompted by the New York Giants decision to hold their football training camp at the University in March 1996.
Physical Education Building
Adjacent to the SEFCU Arena is the Physical Education Building which houses University Gymnasium; three full-size playing surfaces which can be used for basketball, volleyball, and tennis; four racquetball/handball courts; four squash courts; a swimming pool; a fitness and weight training center with Olympic weights; an aerobic exercise room, and a dance studio. University Gymnasium is home to the UAlbany Women's Volleyball team, and also serves as a practice facility for baseball, softball, field hockey and lacrosse. University Gymasium is also the school's primary indoor student recreational facility, playing host to intramural sport leagues including basketball and street hockey.
The PE Building's lower level also houses the University's swimming pool. The seven-lane pool is open to University students, faculty, staff, alumni and community members who purchase facility passes. The lanes are divided to allow swimmers of all abilities to share the pool at the same time. On the second floor of the PE Building is the UAlbany Strength & Conditioning complex, where varsity student-athletes focus on the proper development and combination of strength, power, speed, agility, mobility, conditioning and body composition to enhance performance in all athletic arenas.
UAlbany's strength and conditioning area is housed in a spacious varsity strength complex. The weight room is and is a fully-equipped, Olympic-style free weight room. An efficient design allows for large teams, or several teams, to workout at a single time. The skills room is another adjacent to the weight room that offers a full line of equipment to enhance agility and quickness. It is equipped with plyometric boxes, jump ropes, medicine balls, bikes, cones and various speed building devices. The strength complex is for varsity athletic team use only and is supervised by two full-time coaches and three student interns.
The Bubble
UAlbany's air-supported structure, "The Bubble", was fitted with a brand-new covering with minor interior renovations in the spring of 2003. It is located to the east of the Physical Education Building. It may be utilized for tennis, basketball, and volleyball. It also serves as a secondary practice facility for football, baseball, softball, lacrosse, track & field, and strength & conditioning.
John Fallon Field
John Fallon Field, the home for UAlbany men’s and women’s lacrosse, was completed in the fall of 2005. Fallon, a former UAlbany student-athlete, and a partner at Leboeuf, Lamb, Greene and MacRae, LLP in New York City, made a significant contribution to fund the construction of the all-weather turf field, a Sportexe Momentum Turf 41 surface. The first phase of the project was coordinated by UAlbany’s Office of Architecture, Engineering and Construction Management. The plan was designed by Clough Harbor and Associates LLP. John Fallon Field is adjacent to Alumni Turf Field, which serves as the home for the school’s field hockey team and as a multi-use recreational field for UAlbany students. Both all-weather fields are located just south of Indian Quad on campus.
University Field
University Field seats capacity crowds of 5,000 for football games, and has an all-weather, 400-meter track surrounding a natural grass surface. University Field is home to the UAlbany football and men's and women's track & field teams. The lighted field can accommodate both day and night events. In 2004, the men's lacrosse program played its first-ever evening contest at the facility.
On the roof of the adjacent Physical Education building there is a media facility, home and opponent video locations, and a viewing box for use by the University President and other dignitaries. Inside the PE Building are home, away and officials' locker room facilities. Directly adjacent to the field, the UAlbany football locker room was renovated in the spring of 2003. The project, funded through alumni donations, doubled the size of the Great Danes' previous facilities.
UAlbany Traditions
- The school's colors are purple and gold.
- Fountain Day is UAlbany’s annual rite of spring when the main fountain on the Academic Podium is turned on for the season. This event draws a huge cross-section of the University Community, gathering students, faculty, and staff for an afternoon of festivities. Fountain Day began in 1978 as Human Awareness Potential day. The University President is usually on hand to preside over the ceremony and countdown to the turning on of the fountains. In recent years, Fountain Day has been shaped into a carnival-esque atmosphere complete with beach balls, rubber ducks, free caricatures, free massages, fried dough vendors, music, contests, giveaways, and more fun!
- The Big Purple Growl is the annual winter homecoming. The Ferocious Feast kicks off the festivities with lots of great food and fun. The Growl usually features a doubleheader with both the women’s and men’s basketball teams playing home at the SEFCU Arena. Beginning in 1997, this annual event is an exciting fun-filled, spirited day for all members of the University community.
- On the University seal is Minerva, the Roman goddess of crafts and wisdom. But because Minerva
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, she was known as the goddess of war and victory as well. This famous statue was purchased in 1888 and rescued by Charles Wurtham (a custodian) from a devastating fire in the Normal College’s administrative offices. This seven-foot, white plaster landmark of the University at Albany is on display in the Science Library foyer on the Uptown Campus. While there is no official record of where the statue of Minerva came from, it is reported that it was purchased with funds from a $1 student fee collected for make-up exams.
- UAlbany is home to one of the oldest independent college newspapers in the nation, the Albany Student Press
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, commonly known as “The ASP.” Born as the State College News and published continuously since 1916, the newspaper has a circulation of more than 10,000 and serves student body and the surrounding community.
- The University has hosted the Relay For Life
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Benefit, the last four years. In April 2008, more than 1,400 students, faculty, and community members participated raising $100,000. In 2007, UAlbany student John Lowery raised more money online—more than $25,000—for Relay than any other college student in the country. Lowery, who won a national award from the American Cancer Society, lost a cousin to bone cancer.
- The UAlbany Fund is UAlbany's primary fund raiser
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